Obama awards Gates Medal of Freedom

During a farewell tribute for his four decades of service, President Obama on Thursday presented Defense Secretary Robert Gates with this country's highest civilian honor. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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>>>outside the pentagon today, a farewell tribute to
defense secretaryrobert gates
including a surprise. the president presented him with the medal of freedom, this nation's highest civilian honor, thanking him for his four decades of
public service
and his long tenure as secretary of defense under two presidents of different political parties.
president obama
called gates a humble
american patriot
and his response was emotional.

>>it is a big surprise, but we should have known a couple of months ago you would get pretty good at this
covert ops
stuff.